#portrait of a dead girl

[heartz4shauna]

guys..

[losverbutch]

portrait of a dead girl - the last dinner party

[thestormlightnetwork]

“This is one of those Orpheus and Eurydice moments” let me feed you to my friends. As in I will never shut up about this show.

[parlapina]

Repeated lyrics my beloveds ☆ pt.2

Pt.1

[sapphic-lottienat]

I BREAK APART WITHOUT YOUR ARMS !!! THE SMELL OF SOAP AND PETROL SMARTS !!! LET ME FEED YOU TO MY FRIENDS !!! OVER AND OVER AGAIN !!! LET MY LAST WORDS BE OUR LAST DANCE !!! ID DIE FOR YOU NO QUESTIONS ASKED !!! IF ANYONE COULD KILL ME !!! IT PROBABLY WOULD BE YOU !!! DONT HAVE THE STRENGTH TO PIN YOU DOWN !!! THE TIME I WASTED IN YOUR MOUTH !!! WAVES THAT CRASH AGAINST YOUR CHEST !!! OVER AND OVER AGAIN !!! I KISSED YOUR EYES AND FRAMED YOUR TEETH !!! AS YOU CRAWL BACK TO THE SEA !!! OH ANYONE COULD KILL ME !!! AND ID NEVER EVER LET IT BE YOU !!!!!!!

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

So fun fact My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) is one my favourite poems and I am currently reading The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O’Farrel) and quickly falling in love with it and one of my favourite songs is Portrait of a Dead Girl (The Last Dinner Party) and I don’t think you understand how I can never recommend enough times that if you love one of these things individually you should check out the others and if you don’t know any of them you should introduce yourself to them because *screams*

(Btw for added context The Marriage Portrait and My Last Duchess are both inspired by the same historical figures Duke Alfonso II d’Este (fifth Duke of Ferrara) and Duchess Lucretia do Cosimo d’Este (née de’ Medici). Lucretia was much younger than him and died at 16, within the first year of their marriage. Her official cause of death was putrid fever but it has been popular theorised that Alfonso poisoned her. My Last Duchess describes the painting that Alfonso had commissioned of her, known as her marriage portrait. I included Portrait of a Dead Girl in this because the themes are very similar and it makes me think of her when I listen to it. ALSO: I’m not classing this as spoilers for the book because it is real history and the book tells you what happens to Lucretia all the way through the beginning including in the epigraph, but if anyone thinks I should tag this as spoilers let me know and I’ll add it)

[myladyofmercy]

GIVE ME THE STRENGTH

GIVE ME THE STRENGTH

GIVE ME THE STRENGTH

[cirie-won-thirty-four]

Portrait of a dead girl by the last dinner party is actually one of the best songs ever written like they ATE THAT!!

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

and i wish that i...... had the guts......... the dignity...... to put up a fight

[heartz4shauna]

i break apart without your arms.

[sunny-rants]

it’s jackieshauna

[ladydarlington]

i felt like one of those portraits of women protected by a beast on a chain.

also, i know the song is about a man but i wanted to draw toxic yuri, GIVE ME THE TOXIC YURI!

[thestormlightnetwork]

TLDP were so crazy to write “let me feed you to my friends over and over again”

[echosghoast]

[girlintheflesh]

been seeing a lot of portrait of a dead girl analyses as ships but have you considered the comphet angle... not saying this is what abigail and the band intended to write but the similarities are definitely there. examples and mini analysis below!

“a guard dog there just for her”-faceless men/blank scenarios

“I break apart without your arms”-being unable to exist/feel at ease in the world without the presence of a man

“If anyone could kill me, it probably would be you”-feeling failure/loss of autonomy bc of comphet

“he looks like one of those film stars”-projecting projecting projectiiiiing... onto random men. you know where I’m going with this

“give me the strength”-strength to break free of comphet, to find closure, to move on, etc etc

anyways i love tldp i love portrait of a dead girl hope i get to see this live